 /*******************************************************************************
  * Copyright (c) 2004, 2005 IBM Corporation and others.
  * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
  * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
  * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
  * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
  *
  * Contributors:
  * IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
  *******************************************************************************/

 package org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core;

 import java.io.IOException ;
 import java.io.InputStream ;
 import java.net.URL ;

 /**
  * InputStream subclass which provides a reference (via URL) to the data
  * rather than allowing the input stream to be directly read.
  */
 public class ReferenceInputStream extends InputStream {
     protected URL reference;

     public ReferenceInputStream(URL reference) {
         this.reference = reference;
     }

     /* This method should not be called.
      */
     public int read() throws IOException {
         throw new IOException ();
     }

     public URL getReference() {
         return reference;
     }
 }

